Leah Jackson is a ceramacist. Recent exhibitions in 2009 include Step out of Character Become Yourself, a collaborative work with Rob McHaffie at Darren Knight Gallery, Bottled at PAN Gallery (curated by Kim Brockett & Anita Cummins) and her first solo show Adytum at TCB art inc in Melbourne.
U Do Voodoo, 2010, ceramic, thread
For years I have been giving and receiving small tokens wrapped up with a promise of safety, love and fortune. For my birthday last year my partner gave me a necklace stating its wear would promote me to the status of ‘powerful woman’, but even as a teenager my friends and I would purchase small crystals from the local shop ‘Crystalised’, smoke them with incense, cleanse them with full-moonlight, then give them to the nearest and dearest with similar promises. Despite my common sense lifestyle of today, many of these sacred stones, embedded with a meaning higher than the objects themselves, are still with me.
These ten pieces for Insert Coin Here lay somewhere between ancient ritualistic charms, and a Westfield shopping center – a modern day voodoo to assist in coping with the false promises and the busy metropolitan world around us. Gone are the earthy tones of old magic past, we now require a shallow, saccharine palette to connect with our flat screen CMYK vision. Let these simple physical objects be elevated to a paranormal realm by believing in their ability to quick fix a personal fragility, to fill a void, to improve and enhance oneself.
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